When do I get my National Event without AHFS

[Jeff Colvert]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

The air at Indy is generally pretty bad.If you have to worry about hitting the brakes at that race,your car might be in the wrong class to begin with.

NO I'm not in the wrong class, my car likes S--ty air and I work on it to make it the fastest it can be, I belive S-SS used to be a performance class after all , until some wanted to make it a freaking bracket race. No fan wants to come to the biggest race of the year and see your favorite car take a dump at 1000'. Open your eyes NHRA!

[BRINK]

Originally Posted by Jeff Colvert

NO I'm not in the wrong class, my car likes S--ty air and I work on it to make it the fastest it can be, I belive S-SS used to be a performance class after all , until some wanted to make it a freaking bracket race. No fan wants to come to the biggest race of the year and see your favorite car take a dump at 1000'. Open your eyes NHRA!

Great reply, Jeff, I couldn't agree with you more. The fans come out on the days we run for class at Indy, and they want to see us race to the end, heads up. And have you noticed the slowest cars are the biggest complainers.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Jeff Colvert

NO I'm not in the wrong class, my car likes S--ty air and I work on it to make it the fastest it can be, I belive S-SS used to be a performance class after all , until some wanted to make it a freaking bracket race. No fan wants to come to the biggest race of the year and see your favorite car take a dump at 1000'. Open your eyes NHRA!

Yes Jeff, but we are dinosaurs. Now way out numbered by bracket racers.

[442OLDS]

For those upset at the AHFS,bracket racing,and slow cars........NHRA could always run off of the National Record like it used to be.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

For those upset at the AHFS,bracket racing,and slow cars........NHRA could always run off of the National Record like it used to be.

It would be fine with me.

[boostedf22c]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

For those upset at the AHFS,bracket racing,and slow cars........NHRA could always run off of the National Record like it used to be.

So how does that work? I'm not familiar with how it used to be?

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by boostedf22c

So how does that work? I'm not familiar with how it used to be?

Instead of indexes, we ran off national class records. Used to get points for setting records. We got 2 rounds worth of points for an ET record, one round worth of points for MPH records. Rounds used to be 10, instead of 100. Not sure why they are ten times as many now. Must appeal to somebody. We could only run 1/10th under without breaking out, except national event final rounds (under in a national final round was the new record) or during class. Was not a great lot of breaking out back then. Closer-to-the-record cars normally won. Bracket racing came along, and most of the slower guys went to that. Car counts dropped. If bracket racing had never happened, we might still be running off records. A lot of the time back then I was running off my own record. The first indexes weren't as soft as they are now. Evidently they slowed the indexes to get more slower cars back.

[boostedf22c]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Instead of indexes, we ran off national class records. Used to get points for setting records. We got 2 rounds worth of points for an ET record, one round worth of points for MPH records. Rounds used to be 10, instead of 100. Not sure why they are ten times as many now. Must appeal to somebody. We could only run 1/10th under without breaking out, except national event final rounds (under in a national final round was the new record) or during class. Was not a great lot of breaking out back then. Closer-to-the-record cars normally won. Bracket racing came along, and most of the slower guys went to that. Car counts dropped. If bracket racing had never happened, we might still be running off records. A lot of the time back then I was running off my own record. The first indexes weren't as soft as they are now. Evidently they slowed the indexes to get more slower cars back.

Thanks for the explanation. So there weren't "minimum" records for the majority of the classes like now?

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by boostedf22c

Thanks for the explanation. So there weren't "minimum" records for the majority of the classes like now?

Only minimums for classes with records untouched for 2 years. Didn't happen a lot. Back then you got points for records and people seemed to take more pride is having a fast car. Not so many do now.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Instead of indexes, we ran off national class records. Used to get points for setting records. We got 2 rounds worth of points for an ET record, one round worth of points for MPH records. Rounds used to be 10, instead of 100. Not sure why they are ten times as many now. Must appeal to somebody. We could only run 1/10th under without breaking out, except national event final rounds (under in a national final round was the new record) or during class. Was not a great lot of breaking out back then. Closer-to-the-record cars normally won. Bracket racing came along, and most of the slower guys went to that. Car counts dropped. If bracket racing had never happened, we might still be running off records. A lot of the time back then I was running off my own record. The first indexes weren't as soft as they are now. Evidently they slowed the indexes to get more slower cars back.

Ed. Those days were nice. But we only used to get 1 or 2 races out of our front tires. No shoe polish then just hit the brakes hard at the big end. Cars went a lot slower then. Our B/SA Challenger run a best of 122 mph ( at Fremont CA) And back then they used an extra 60 to calculate the mph. The shoe polish helps to stop that.